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Our Rich and Poor [from the New York Mercury]

Barber, Joseph. "Our Rich and Poor [from the New York Mercury]." New-York Saturday Press. 11 Aug. 1860: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

This poem describes the polarities of the wealthy and the impoverished, commenting on the irony of the professed equality of humankind versus the reality of vast differences between the rich and the poor.